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Paperback. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown, 1974. Num Pages: 560 pages, , black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591140856
ISBN
9781591140856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.26

paperback. No group is quoted - and misquoted - more often than America's founders. The Quotable Founding Fathers offers a compilation of some 2,500 quotes summing up the wit and wisdom of the founders. It mines into the founders' essays, diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons to extract all the nuggets that are significant to the history of the US. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574888294
ISBN
9781574888294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Hardback. Offers a collection of Thomas Jefferson's quotations. This book puts Jefferson's words in context with an introduction, a chronology of Jefferson's life, the source of each quotation, an appendix identifying Jefferson's correspondents, and an index. It is intended for the casual reader, but is also a reference work. Editor(s): Kaminski, John P. Num Pages: 624 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 101 x 40. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122670
ISBN
9780691122670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.43

The first modern biography of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists, written by an acclaimed senior feminist historian. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199756247
ISBN
9780199756247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 44.87

Paperback. Part cycling story, part cold war and love story, this is Ben MacIntyre meets the great escape, a sporting equivalent of Anna Funder's seminal Stasiland. Num Pages: 416 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; BGS; HBJD; HBTW; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781315361
ISBN
9781781315361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 466 pages, 36 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 220 x 32. Weight in Grams: 752.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230363199
ISBN
9780230363199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.03

Paperback. An extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism, based on research into machine building and steel production in Hungary. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JH; JPFC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080420
ISBN
9780226080420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Hardback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752465593
ISBN
9780752465593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.71

Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, b&w sketches throughout. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AN; AVC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Tulika Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9789382381921
ISBN
9789382381921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Editor(s): West, Cornel. Series: King Legacy (Paperback). Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFFS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Beacon Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807034521
ISBN
9780807034521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.34

Hardcover. There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss exceptionalism.. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455804
ISBN
9781845455804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.72

Paperback.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679736882
ISBN
9780679736882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.97

Hardcover. The RAF in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain looks at the opportunities missed in the French campaign. It takes a fresh look at the Battle of Britain and asks if the RAF was ready to help repel an invasion. It follows the disputes between the Army and RAF and debates whether air power used independently can ever achieve decisive results. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 252 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555255
ISBN
9781781555255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.57

Paperback. James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223583
ISBN
9780812223583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

hardcover. This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JW; TRF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742399
ISBN
9780804742399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

paperback. During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FM; BGHA; HBJF; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099582311
ISBN
9780099582311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTK; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784977344
ISBN
9781784977344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. In this book, we hear the myriad voices of ordinary Indian people, from the first Indian to win the Victoria Cross, the nurses in Indian General Hospitals to labourers and their families in remote villages. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542278
ISBN
9780099542278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.91

Hardcover. From John Wilmot, the drunken and debauched 2nd Earl of Rochester to Albert Edward, the playboy Prince of Wales (and later King Edward VII), this book chronicles the lives and adventures of some of England's rakes. It focuses on seven representative rakes from the Restoration to the late Victorian era. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Nonsuch Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845883454
ISBN
9781845883454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.71

Paperback. "In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Na" Num Pages: 304 pages, 40pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 145 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465068364
ISBN
9780465068364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.60

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